Sentences with phrase «by white evangelicals»

Much of that surge was fueled by white evangelical and other white mainline Protestant religious groups who are more likely to see immigrants as a threat to American values than other groups, according to a 2015 PRRI study.

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By the 1980s, white evangelicals had coalesced around the Republican Party and its promise to restore the nation's morality.

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

An analysis of Pew's data suggests that only half of Francis's fans among white evangelicals agree with him that global warming is occuring and is a serious problem, and only one - third agree that it is caused by humans.

Wheaton administrators spent several months preparing for a 2006 visit from Soulforce, a group aiming to change religious leaders» minds on gay issues that was co-founded by Mel White, who was a ghost writer for some evangelical leaders, including Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell.

Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity by Edward Gilbreath: Those in the evangelical tradition will benefit from this honest and insightful book that weaves together personal experience and historical consideration to explore the state of racial reconciliation in Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity by Edward Gilbreath: Those in the evangelical tradition will benefit from this honest and insightful book that weaves together personal experience and historical consideration to explore the state of racial reconciliation in evangelical tradition will benefit from this honest and insightful book that weaves together personal experience and historical consideration to explore the state of racial reconciliation in the church.

The hypocrisy here is staggering, for as everyone knows, white evangelicals overwhelmingly support President Trump, a man who has been accused by more than twenty women of sexual assault, who is on record bragging about those assaults, and who was recently found in a Christianity Today poll to be evangelicals» «most trusted celebrity.»

Largely excluded from the PFNA when the whites were joining the NAE, and more likely to find solidarity with the other black churches than with the white Pentecostals or evangelicals, these churches are much less tempted by a fundamentalist identity.

Obama's margin of victory was much smaller than in 2008 when he defeated John McCain by a 53 % to 46 % margin, and he lost ground among white evangelical Protestants and white Catholics.

An exit poll published after last year's US Presidential election by the Pew Research Center suggested that 81 - per - cent of people identifying as «white, born - again, evangelical Christians» chose Mr Trump over Hillary Clinton.

«One is felt by people who care a great deal about social issues, especially white evangelicals, who are uncomfortable with Mitt Romney.»

A true statement, «One is felt by people who care a great deal about social issues, especially white evangelicals, who are uncomfortable with Mitt Romney.»

Trump's candidacy revealed three main groups of white evangelicals, each distinguished by prudential political judgments.

Black Gospel found a limited — and mostly secular — audience among white listeners, but southern white Gospel was routinely panned as vulgar,» «hillbilly» and «western» style music, even by conservative evangelicals in the North.

Should I, as a Creole, mixed - race, African American, Evangelical leader sit quietly by, not saying a word about what has transpired in Ferguson and many other cities so that your white daughter would not feel compelled to speak out and the comfort of your reality would remain.

A recent PRRI / RNS poll reveals that white evangelicals support a Mormon presidential candidate over Obama by an overwhelming 49 % margin, but are simultaneously the religious group most likely to say it is important for a presidential candidate to share their religious beliefs (67 %).

The latest polls by NBC and CNN show Trump still solidly leading Ted Cruz among white evangelical voters at large.

So, as we look at evangelicals by belief, not just «white evangelicals» (who are overwhelmingly for Donald Trump), we find a very different story.

The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Family.

White evangelicals (83 %) are the most likely of all to want a candidate that shares their faith, followed by black Protestants (72 %), two - thirds of whom identify as evangelicals according to Pew.

Earlier in the year, Pew found that white evangelicals» presidential picks were more determined by distaste for an opposing candidate than support for their selection.

The letter was signed by prominent evangelical figures such as Franklin Graham, the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and Paula White, President Donald Trump's spiritual adviser and a Florida pastor.

By a 48 to 34 percent margin, white evangelical Protestants questioned say they oppose allowing gays from serving openly, while majorities or pluralities of other religious groups surveyed favor allowing gays to serve.

The desire to survey white evangelicals to determine their political interests inadvertently ends up conveying two ideas that are not true: that «evangelical» means «white» and that evangelicals are primarily defined by their politics.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

If you are a white evangelical Christian in the U.S. you are unlikely to be «randomly» screened by the T.S.A. every time you try to board an airplane.

More than half of white evangelicals (54 %) and white mainline Protestants (53 %) would support a law barring Syrian refugees from entering the United States, according to a survey conducted in June by the Public Religion Research Institute.

Leading up to the election, LifeWay Research, which measures evangelicals by belief and includes non-whites, found that evangelicals of color sided with Hillary Clinton (62 %) nearly as strongly as white evangelicals sided with Trump (65 %).

Concerned also by state measures legalizing gay marriage, Mohler said that, aside from the 79 percent of white evangelicals who voted as they should, the «[evangelical] message was rejected by millions of Americans who went to the polls and voted according to a contrary worldview.»

By the early fall of 2016, however, his favorability among white evangelicals had jumped to 61 percent.

Earlier this year, Christian evangelicals, who have a direct line to the White House, launched the «Evangelical Climate Initiative», signed by 86 evangelical leaders, including Rick Warren, who runs a mega-church and wrote a bestseller, «The Purpose - Driven LEvangelical Climate Initiative», signed by 86 evangelical leaders, including Rick Warren, who runs a mega-church and wrote a bestseller, «The Purpose - Driven Levangelical leaders, including Rick Warren, who runs a mega-church and wrote a bestseller, «The Purpose - Driven Life».